Busy day in the bodyshop (next few days, actually), so things will get off the ground slowly today. Flames. Ugh. It’s not that I don’t like how they look – they’re just so bloody much work and technically unforgiving.
In the meantime, check out the blogroll. Plus, there’s lots of good items linked at National News Watch this morning.
Check ’em out, and I’ll be back when I get back.
As of this morning, Google News pulls up nothing from the MSM on the radioactive remarks by Liberal energy critic, Mark Holland.
And if you’re one of those out there scratching your head about why this is such a “big deal” – imagine, for a moment, that Stockwell Day had blown into Montreal in 2005 and mused on live radio that a Conservative government might make transfer payments to the province contingent on Quebec going English only.
That help?
Valstar: Give him time, the blogs are doing an excellent job of it. In the house of commons the PM has to respond to the questions asked, as do his ministers. Notice the liberals kept away from the topic today. Just wait. PMSH will do it when the media is least expecting it and will blindside them just like he did with the ads. I fully expect holland to appear in some campaign ad or literature. Perhaps a video of him saying over and over, there will be consequences, and scenes of empty auto plants, office bldgs, people in EI lines, all taking place in the GTA. Maybe a homeless que ex mp, with a sign saying, please can I have more.
All Alberta bloggers should cheCk out the website of the Separation Party of Alberta—AND JOIN IT!
lberia — your comment suggesting that the media are ignoring the Holland issue as retaliation for are tantamount to admitting that the MSM are biased and manipulative. Nasty thing to imply. Anyone care to defend the MSM on this?
Rattfuc — I also used to be an NDP supporter once upon a time. I even went out knocking on doors for them. And for a time I was a PET supporter. I am curious about how many other people posting on this site might confess to having been similarly misguided in the past.
I confess, I once voted liberal. We lived in town during the winter, and there was an election, first time I could vote. I followed it very carefully and was going to vote social credit. However, when I went to vote, I was not on the list, and we lived on a farm. So, out to the polling station to vote. I only recognized one name, as he was the mayor of my home town. It was after voting I read all the info re polling station. We lived on the corner of the ridings.
Across the road it was a different one. Waiting for the results on the radio, I discovered I had voted Liberal. We never moved our farm, but during the 45 years we lived there, we were in several different prov ridings. My mla was always a cabinet minister and even the premier once, Strom. Even had a fed minister once, after Olsen crossed the floor, but we defeated him the next time. Also had one under Brian. It took several years, but when the opportunity come to change boundries I worked very hard to get our area into the Lethbridge constituency. Several boundries were up for change, and when I went to the meeting to finalize it, only 3 of us were there to make a presentation. 2 of them were on opposite sides of one area. When asked how many voters I was talking about I said about 250, to be moved. A young aid jumped up, went to a chart and said wasn’t it more like 600, as his figures as per the last census had the population at over 1000. I was speechless for a bit, then remembered when the census had been and I asked him that question. I asked -isn’t it required that all parks etc be counted. Yes he said, and I then hit him with, that wkend was the annual rodeo and there would have been several hundred visitors to the park, who did not live in the area. We argued for a bit, and he was determined to win, until I said, ok, if we have 1000 people living there why are there only 60 kids in the school, and why don’t we get all the per capita money for recreation, education etc based on that amount of people. Discussion over, we got moved.
I will never forget one all candidate meeting I organized so we could at least put faces to the names on the ballot. The liberal guy come 15 minutes late, in torn jeans, T-shirt with a weird saying. He started his speech with, I want to get into politics and decided to start at the bottom, so picked the liberals.